Speakers

Henry Mintzberg

I have been an academic most of my working life. After receiving my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal (1961), I worked in Operational Research at the Canadian National Railways, and then received a masters and doctorate from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston. In 1968, I returned to McGill, where I joined what is now called the Desautels Faculty of Management. I currently hold the Cleghorn Professorship of Management Studies.

I devote myself largely to writing and research, over the years especially about managerial work, strategy formation, and forms of organizing. I have published about 170 articles and17 books. In 2004, I published Managers not MBAs, in 2007 Tracking Strategies, in 2013 Simply Managing, and in 2015 Rebalancing Society…radical renewal beyond left, right, and center, the implications of which are now my central focus. I am also completing a monograph entitled Managing the Myths of Health Care.

In recent years, I have done more general writing, including a weekly TWOG (tweet2blog: @mintzberg141 to mintzberg.org/blog), as “provocative fun in a page or 2 beyond pithy pronouncements in a line or 2.”

I have worked for much of the past two decades, in collaboration with colleagues around the world, on developing new approaches to management education and development. The International Masters in Practicing Management has been running since 1996 and the International Masters for Health Leadership since 2006. Both are rather novel ways to help managers learn from their own experience. Out of this has come a management development enterprise called CoachingOurseves.com. A GROOC (MOOC for groups) called Social Learning for Social Impact ran in 2015, and will run again in 2017 under the title “On the earth, for the Earth.”

I continue to spend my public life dealing with organizations and my private life escaping from them–on a bicycle, up mountains, atop skates, and in a canoe.

Marine Agogué

HEC Montréal
Assistant Professor, Department of Management

Marine Agogué is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at HEC Montreal. She works on cognition and creative thinking, as well as on the management of design activities in organizations.

John Armitage

University of Southampton
Professor of Media Arts

Co-Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

He is currently co-editing Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media with Joanne Roberts for Edinburgh University Press, and for Bloomsbury Publishing he is editing The Luxury Reader with Joanne Roberts and Jonathan Faiers and writing Luxury and Visual Culture.

Julie Baillargeon

Bell
Senior Specialist, Brand Office

With unusual academic and professional paths, Julie is the live evidence that with determination and a little bit of talent, you can go far. Proud mother of two wonderful boys, successful at work with 23 years of experience at Bell Canada, Julie can inspire a few young women who wonder how it is possible to manage personal life with fulfill career.

Julie is a Senior Specialist at the Brand Office since 2008 overseeing the relationship with its multiple advertising agencies. She took part in the re-branding of the company a few years ago engaging agencies to establish the new image.

She studied applied sciences in college, has a bachelor degree in urbanism and an MBA from l’Université du Québec à Montréal.

Pierre Balloffet

Pierre Balloffet’s interests include health and well-being communication and marketing, infomediation of markets and multichannel integration, management decision making and knowledge acquisition, and performance measurement. He is responsible for the Graduate Diploma in Marketing and Communication (D.E.S.S.), and is Associate, Chair of Commercial Space and Customer Service Management.

Patrick Beauduin

Kedge Business School
Head of Digital Strategy, Innovation and RSE

Born in Congo, Patrick discovered Belgium at the age of 7.
In Europe, after a Master’s degree in Journalism and Social Communication (Université de Bruxelles), he left in 1978 for Niger where he taught African literature to future teachers. Back in Europe in 1980, he made his advertising classes in the Euro RSCG and TBWA networks before founding his own agency: Kadratura. Patrick arrived in Canada in 1994 as Creative Vice President at Cossette. In 2005, he became Chief Convergent Creative Office and he had exercise his creative leadership for clients such as Bell, Bank of Montreal, GM, McDo… For 15 years in HEC Montreal, he has been teaching Histoire de la Consommation ( DESSCM). From 2010 to 2013, at Radio-Canada he was General Manager in charge of the redesign of its radio programs, establishing a common music strategy for Radio-Canada and CBC. Since 2014, Patrick is Head of Digital Strategy and Innovation at Kedge BS and teacher at the MBA.

Marco Beaulieu

Bombardier Academy
Head of Knowledge Management practice and directs the Bombardier Academy

Marco Beaulieu is the Head of Knowledge Management practice and directs the Bombardier Academy, the Centre of Excellence in technical skills.
Marco has extensive experience in knowledge management industry and information and collaboration systems. Before joining Bombardier, he held various management positions in engineering, consulting and telecommunications. Since 2012, he led a transformation project involving the establishment of a knowledge management practice within engineering teams worldwide. This strategic project involves a major change management plan as well as the implementation of a new collaboration platform. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and Queens’ Executive Leadership program.

Catherine Berthillier

Shamengo
Fondatrice

Shamengo is a collective adventure that is gaining more participants every day. Some have been here from the beginning. Others have joined us for specific missions as their interests and our means allowed. Together we are all helping to develop and expand this meaningful work, which exceeds the bounds we have set for it and makes us swell with pride.
The woman behind it all is Catherine Berthillier, a one-time special correspondent for major French TV news outlets: Envoyé Spécial (France 2) Des Racines et des Ailes (France 3) Zone Interdite (M6) Reportages (TF1) Arte Reportage (Arte)… as well as numerous documentaries for France 3 and France 5 with international co-production.
After 15 years of covering the forces of destruction in the world and receiving several awards and honours (FIGRA prize, Silver Palm Award in NY, Audience Award at the SCOOP festival in Angers…) Catherine Berthillier decided to devote her skills and her network of French and international contacts to building the world of tomorrow. Shamengo was launched in October 2011 and is produced by the film production company Kaïa Productions.

Elaine Bissonnette

Bell
Director, Brand strategy

Elaine has over 20 years of experience in advertising, sponsorships, strategy, and brand management. A dynamic manager and creative leader, Elaine has served the Bell brand with dedication throughout her tenure. An extensive portfolio of memorable, award-winning advertising campaigns, sponsorship projects, and effective brand development attest to Elaine’s time-tested ability to integrate, inspire, and enable a variety of business partners, agencies, and team members, to reach their full potential.

Lise Boily

uOttawa
Professor

Lise Boily work focuses on the codification of knowledge in relation with the new emerging “genre” in cultural productions. I study the redistribution of knowledge and the innovative practices deriving from it that contribute to the creative economy. This work entails analyzing creativity and innovation stemming from technological clusters and network organizations. Cultural institutions, digital collections, cybermuseology, digital storytelling, digital opera, e-cinema, new publishing are providing a space for understanding the creative practices through which collective memory and knowledge are being redistributed and reinterpreted.

I study the links between technology and culture from an anthropological perspective.
My research contributes to enlighten new dimension on cognitive process through the use of new Information technologies.

Areas of specialization include:

Social history of communication,

Contemporary communication issues,

New Web practices and creative economy,

ICT and knowledge transfer,

Anthropology and technique.

Charles-Mathieu Brunelle

Sylvain Carle

FounderFuel
DG

Associate at Real Venture

Sylvain Carle lives and breathes emerging technologies. For the last 20 years, he has thrived with marvel and fun at the confluence of media, technology and networks. Entrepreneurship, web software architecture, APIs, digital and social media as well as open-source software and open standards are all at the core of his competence and passion.

He has been on many community technology group boards (Ile-Sans-Fil, Alliance Numérique and OSMO) and a serial entrepreneur, CTO and co-founder since 2000 (Messagia, Interstructure, Praized, Needium). Most recently he was Senior Developer Advocate at Twitter in San Francisco, helping strategic partners get the most of the blue bird’s APIs and technology products.

Socialist, idealist and pragmatic, he is convinced that technology will change the world in this era of the networked society. One of his current obsessions is the impact of the (noble) hacker culture on public and private organisations and of innovation through massive collaboration, Github-style.

Urban, local, sustainable, fair, open, transparent and more human is how he wants to see technology and the world evolve. He hopes he can have a small influence in that regard. He is mostly self-taught and an avid learner with insatious curiosity.

Jean-Christophe Carteron

KEDGE Business School – France
CSR Director

Director of CSR, Carteron coordinates the School’s SD strategy, helps to develop research (5 dedicated Chairs and a think-tank on responsible management) and pedagogical activities on sustainable development. He works on leading by example though a more sustainable approach of the campus (12 000 students).

Board Member of different NGOs, Foundations, and Social entreprise, he is a leading actor in working groups mainly focalized on social responsibility for higher education institutions: UN PRME (Principle for responsible Management Education), GRLI (Globally responsible Leadership Initiative) and GUPES-UNEP).

Anne Charpentier

Montréal Space for Life
Director of the Montréal Insectarium

The beauty of nature and the challenges it faces are the inspiration behind Anne Charpentier’s two Masters degree—one in biology and the other in museology—from the Université de Montréal. A member of the conceptual group whose work spawned the Montréal Biôdome, she is also responsible for its exhibits and cultural offerings. She was also responsible for the cultural gardens at the Montréal Botanical Garden. From 2003 to 2005, she spearheaded the renewal of most of the exhibits at Environment Canada’s Biosphere. Her deeply rooted belief in the importance of access to culture also motivated her work as director of one of a Montreal borough’s libraries and cultural centres. Her accomplishments, along with more than 20 years of involvement in museology and scientific culture earned her the 2005 Outstanding Contribution Award of the Canadian Association of Science Centres.

Since 2008, Anne Charpentier has headed the Montréal Insectarium, a Space for Life. Through the Insectarium’s Metamorphosis, she is following her main interest and motivation: exploring the fascinating relationships that exist between humans and nature.

François D’amour

Bell
Senior Specialist, Brand Office

François began his career at Bell with positions in public relations, marketing and marketing communications. He then joined the Brand team to work on the rebranding of the company. He currently works on Sponsorship advertising, Brand campaigns as well as the management of the annual Bell Let’s Talk campaign. François took part in the 2014 summer school.

David Doloreux

Université Pierre Mendes France
Professor

Doloreux, David is a Full Professor in the Telfer School of Management at the University of Ottawa and holds the Research Chair on entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development. His research program focuses on two principal themes: the determinants of innovation in manufacturing firms and services and on clusters and regional innovation systems across different sectors and regions in Canada and Europe. He has published more than 70 articles in academic journal, among others, in Journal of Economic Geography, Environment and Planning A, Regional Studies, and Journal of Business Research. He has co-edited two books: The Handbook of the Geographies of Innovations (Edwar Elgar, 2016) and Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Geography and Innovation (Ashgate, 2010).

Christian Defélix

Christian Defélix completed a PhD in human resources management at HEC Paris in 1995 and joined University of Grenoble in 1996. His favourite fields for courses and research are skill-based management, clusters and collaborative projects, human resources and innovation. He published many articles on those topics in academic journals, and is the co-author of two recent research books : Gestion des compétences. Nouvelles dimensions, nouvelles relations (with D. Retour and T. Picq, 2009) and Ressources humaines, RSE et territoires : défis théoriques, réalisations pratiques (with A. Loubes, I. Bories-Azeau and O. Uzan, 2015). He founded the “Human capital and innovation Chair”, a partnership with Grenoble-Isère high-tech leaders such as Schneider Electric, STMicroelecronics, Alstom and Becton Dickinson. He was elected in 2012 as dean of Grenoble IAE, the Graduate School of Management at the heart of University Grenoble Alpes.

Frank Escoubes

Bluenove
Executive Chairman

Frank Escoubes is the Executive Chairman of Bluenove (www.bluenove.com), the leading French consultancy in open innovation and collective intelligence (Paris-Montreal, 35 consultants and developers). Frank is a former Deloitte Principal. He worked as a strategy consultant for 20 years in Europe and North America, including 8 years with Deloitte in Canada (2005-2013), in charge of Strategy Innovation and Cluster Acceleration.

Frank is the founder of the collaborative platform Imagination for People (www.imaginationforpeople.org) aimed at supporting collective intelligence applied to societal issues at a global scale. Frank specializes in new business models, economic development, co-creation supported by collaborative platforms and collective intelligence within businesses, smart cities and civil society communities.

Frank is an Ashoka Fellow (Social Entrepreneurship) and a Royal Society of Arts 21st Century Enlightenment RSA Fellow (UK). He just completed the writing of his first novel.

Tim Fagan

Olivier Irrmann

Engineering school at the Catholic University of Lille
Professor of Innovation Management and Co-Design

Olivier Irrmann is Professor of Innovation Management and Co-Design at ISEN Lille, Engineering school at the Catholic University of Lille, France. He is the head of research for the strategic initiative on Innovation and Co-Design (ADICODE) a major project funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Lille Metropolitan Area. Olivier is conducting research on the topics of collective intelligence, collaborative innovation, the management of creative hubs and intercultural communication in business contexts. He has previously worked at Aalto University in Finland and HEC Montreal in Canada. He was the representative of Aalto University to the European Network of Excellence GaLA, Games and Learning Alliance.

Mantautas Krukauskas

Lithuanian Academy of Music & Theater
Lecturer

Mantautas Krukauskas has Masters Degrees in piano and composition and is currently teaching electronic and computer music and sound art disciplines in the Department of Composition at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Since 2012, he has been head of the composition study programme committee. His compositions – including chamber music, audio-visual works and music for theatre productions – have been performed in Lithuania, Austria, Germany, the US and other countries. As a composer, Krukauskas has been the winner of two international competitions, both of which took place in Austria. He has been actively involved in various organisational activities, including project coordination and event organising, as well as international research and education programmes. His interests embrace creativity, inter-disciplinarity, music and media technologies and a synergy of different aesthetic and cultural approaches. Mantautas Krukauskas as well is one of the founders and most active collaborators of Music Innovation Studies Centre (MiSC) of Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, which is focusing its activities on synergy of art, research and technologies.

Denys Lapointe

Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP)
Executive Vice-President

Denys Lapointe is an experienced executive with an impressive track record in industrial design, more specifically in the field of transportation. Working at Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) for the last 30 years, and presently acting as Senior Vice-President of Design & Innovation and Corporate Image, Denys has been a key player throughout the years in helping position the company as an undisputed leader in the motorized recreational vehicle’s arena. Denys and his team were responsible for the creation of the new Can-am™ Spyder™, the 3-wheel roadster which is currently challenging the current motorcycle paradigm, since its launch in 2008.

Denys holds a bachelor’s degree in Design from the University of Quebec in Montreal (1985). He is an active member of the advisory board for the Center for creative studies in Detroit and The board of the CTA (Centre de technologie avancés –Université de Sherbrooke and BRP). Denys is also a member of several leading Design associations, such as ICSID, IDSA , ACID, ADIQ.

Denys and his team have received numerous trade awards but more importantly over 40 international Design Awards, counting Red Dots-Germany, IDEA-US, IF-Germany, Good Design-Australia, Good Design-Japan and Good Design-US.

Rachel Léger

Montréal Biodôme
Director

Rachel Léger holds a Master’s in Veterinary Microbiology from the Université de Montréal (1985) and a Bachelor’s in Marine Biology from the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver (1981). She was part of the team responsible for designing, planning and building the Biodôme.

As Director of the Biodôme since 2006, she has made a substantial contribution to its development, spearheading its accreditation with the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) and signing agreements with various university and museum institutions. She was also involved in the preliminary planning for Biodômes in Thailand, Peru, France and Qatar, and served as President of Canada’s Accredited Zoos and Aquariums from 2008 to 2010. Ms. Léger was also a science columnist for the Radio-Canada radio program Les Années-lumière with Yanick Villedieu from 1998 to 2012.

Ms. Léger was named professional woman of the year by the Salon de la Femme du Québec in 1993, and in 2008 received the Prix Méritas from the Fédération acadienne du Québec, awarded to an Acadian public figure living in Quebec. In 2010, the Université de Montréal presented her with an honorary degree saluting her professional achievements.

In 2014, Ms. Léger was part of an international architecture competition for the projects: Migration of the Biodôme, the Insectarium`s Metamorphosis, and the Botanical Garden`s Glass Pavilion. She is also in charge for the project Migration of the Biodôme.

Richard Lepage

To come

Dominique Minier

Roger Parent

Trained in visual arts and theatre at Laval University and Concordia University, Roger Parent has been a sculptor, photographer, creative director, technical director, lighting & soundman, scenographer, and producer. He has collaborated on more than 5000 shows in North America, Europe and Asia. An eclectic thinker who excels in managing creative teams, Roger dedicates himself to innovation and interactive scenography, architectural and advanced creations for public spaces and galleries, and the field of entertainment. As executive producer, he has participated in creative development for Cirque du Soleil and in the presentation of the Cirque’s first permanent shows in Las Vegas. Roger has worked on numerous designs for hotels, casinos, and museums in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and America. As well as being a member of the board of directors for the MUTEK international festival of digital creativity & electronic music and for Tout à Trac Theatre, Roger is also a member of the Program Committee for Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles.
He is often invited by the HEC Business School and MOSAIC in Montreal as a speaker for various conferences on the business of creativity and as a guest lecturer for their course, “Montreal-Barcelona, Creative Cities”. York University in Toronto and the Carnegie Melon Entertainment Technology Center have also sought his opinion on the future of the creative industry.

Yves Pigneur

HEC Lausanne
Professor

Visiting professor at HEC Montreal

Dr. Pigneur is a professor of management and information systems at the University of Lausanne since 1984, and has held visiting professorships at Georgia State University, University of British Columbia, National University of Singapore, and HEC Montreal. He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Namur, Belgium. He was the former editor-in-chief of the academic journal “Systèmes d’Information & Management (SIM)”. Together with Alexander Osterwalder, they authored the international bestseller “Business Model Generation”, translated in 30 languages. In 2014, they co-authored the new book on “Value Proposition Design”. Yves is a frequent keynote speaker and guest lecturer on business models in universities, large corporations, entrepreneurship events and international conferences throughout the world.

Josep Piqué

President of Technova Barcelona – La Salle Innovation Park
Vice-President – International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation

Josep Miquel Piqué is a Telecommunication Engineer from La Salle and UPC and MBA from ESADE. He holds also diplomas from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California-Berkeley and Universitat Ramon Llull.

He is a disciple of Professors Henry Etzkowitz (co-founder of Triple Helix), Francesc Solé Parellada (Entrepreneurship) and Jerome Engel (Clusters of Innovation).

He is the President of XPCAT (Catalan Network of Science Parks), Vice-President of APTE (Spanish Network of Science Parks) and Vice-President of IASP (International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation).

He is expert of the Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) of the European Commission and member of the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies of the United Nations Commission for Europe (UNECE).

His long professional experience in university management has leaded him to promote and lead Postgraduate Programs, Technology Transfer Centers, University Incubators and Innovation Science and Technology Parks. He has promoted several hybrid organizations taking the partnership model University-Industry-Public Administration.

In the field of public administration has been CEO of the District Innovation – 22 @ Barcelona, Director of Strategic Sectors of the Agency of Local Development – Barcelona Activa and CEO of the Office of Economic Growth of the Barcelona City Council. Among other projects he has participated in teams of Barcelona European Capital of Innovation and Barcelona Mobile World Capital

He has published several papers in publications and congresses on Innovation Ecosystems. He has participated in several international forums in Europe (Bulgaria, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Italy and UK), America (Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, U.S.A.) and Asia (Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Japan and China).

The central line of his activity is the promotion of Knowledge-based Economy and Society in order to consolidate Knowledge Cities on Smart Cities.

Marlei Pozzebon is full professor at HEC Montréal and also associate professor at FGV/EAESP. Some keywords of her research are social innovation, social change, citizen creativity, local and sustainable development and global-local dialogue. Her research interests are linked to the possibilities of better understanding and promoting social change using practice-based theoretical lenses and qualitative research methods. In terms of theories, structuration theory, different forms of social constructivism and critical approaches are appealing for her. She has published articles in Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Information Technology and People, Journal of Information Technology, Public Administration, Journal of Change Management, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Revista de Administração de Empresas, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and Brazilian Administrative Review, among others.

Currently, she is working in four research programs investigating social innovations:

The first – Financial inclusion – is about the use of ICT to support microfinance in Brazil and South America.

The second – Social business – is about an academic and pedagogical experience with innovative business models that seek to decrease poverty by the development of social skills among management students and executives.

The third – Citizen creativity – is about the civil society movements dealing with quality of life, social justice and sustainability.

Dr Madanmohan Rao

Jazzuality
Consultant in media and management

Dr Madanmohan Rao is a journalist, author, blogger and consultant in media and management based in Bangalore, India. He was the world music editor at Rave magazine, where he reviewed concerts, albums and music genres for seven years. Madan was also a radio jockey for world music at WorldSpace Satellite Radio, where he produced a weekly two-hour programme on world music. He is currently global correspondent for World Music Central and Jazzuality.
He was formerly an RJ for world music at WMUA FM 91.1 in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. Madan is also music editor for IndiaSe (“From India”) magazine published from Singapore. He is the founder of the “World of Proverbs” project and book series which includes the book “Indian Proverbs and Quotations.”

Madan has covered a range of international music festivals including WOMAD in Singapore, JakJazz and JavaJazz in Jakarta, Fireflies and Guitar Gurus in Bangalore, PopKomm in Berlin, WOMEX in Sevilla, ReggaeFestivalen in Sweden, Day of Peace and Rotterdam International Jazz Festival in Holland, Miri Jazz Festival in Malaysia, Bali Spirit Festival in Indonesia, Penang World Music Festival and Sarawak Rainforest World Music Festival in Malaysia. He has published reviews of over 500 albums of world music, featuring dozens of artistes, genres and countries.

Madan is also a frequent speaker on the international conference circuit, and has given talks and lectures in over 75 countries around the world. He was previously research director at the Asian Media Information and Communication centre (AMIC) in Singapore, where he edited publications, conducted research and helped organise the annual AMIC media summits.
He was the communications director at the United Nations Inter Press Service bureau in New York, and vice president at IndiaWorld Communications in Bombay. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, with an M.S. in computer science and a Ph.D. in communications.
Madan grew up in Poona, went to college in Bombay, and grad school in the US. He has been based in Bangalore for the last 12 years. His hobbies include travel, hiking, swimming and beer appreciation.

Jay Mellette

Joanne Roberts

University of Southampton
Professor in Arts and Cultural Management

Director of the Winchester Luxury Research Group, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

Joanne Roberts research interests include knowledge, creativity, and luxury. Joanne has written extensively in the fields of business and management, having published articles in a wide range of international journals, including the Journal of Management Studies, Management Learning, and Research Policy. Her most recent book is A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Knowledge Management, (Sage Publications, 2015). Joanne is also the co-founder and co-editor of the award-winning journal Critical Perspectives on International Business; an editor of the journal Prometheus: Critical Studies in Innovation; and a member of the editorial board of several journals, including Luxury: History, Culture and Consumption. She is currently co-editing Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media with John Armitage for Edinburgh University Press.

Rick Seifeddine

Bell
Senior Vice President of Brand

As Senior Vice President of Brand for Bell Canada, Rick Seifeddine is responsible for the recent re-branding of Bell Canada, advertising for all of Bell’s business units, visual design, as well the management and direction of all communications agencies working for Bell.

Prior to his position with Bell, Rick was Vice-President of Brand and Advertising for TELUS Mobility (responsible for the creation of the TELUS brand using animals and flowers), Vice-President of Wireless Sales for TELUS in Québec, and Vice-President of Brand and Advertising for the former Clearnet Communications Inc.

Before joining the telecom industry, Rick worked in corporate strategy development and marketing communications with such organizations as Canada Consulting Group (now BCG) of Toronto, the Toronto Olympic Committee (where he prepared and submitted Toronto’s candidature for the 1996 Olympics), event marketing agency Lang & Associates and Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre, where he served as Corporate Development Manager.

Rick was born and raised in Montréal and has an Honours Degree in the History and Philosophy of Science from Harvard University.

Arthur Shelley

Intelligent Answers
Founder and CEO

Arthur Shelley is a capability and knowledge strategy consultant with 30 years professional experience. Currently, Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT University and formerly Global Knowledge Director for Cadbury Schweppes. He managed international projects in Australia, Europe, Asia and USA and is an awarded tertiary educator. An author of several books, chapters and journal articles and community leader of professional development networks including The Organizational Zoo Ambassadors Network, RMIT MBA mentoring program and the Melbourne Knowledge Management Leadership Forum. He has a PhD on the influence of behaviour on team interactions and a Master of Science. Full biography: http://www.organizationalzoo.com

Frederic Touvard

CENTAURY France & Canada
Coach

Frederic Touvard is Coach and Consultant, founder and Director of CENTAURY France & Canada Company, specialized in the disruptive innovation domain (Creative Project management, creativity & design, exploration). He is involved in communities of innovation création as a facilitator and manage the Renault community of innovation projects. He is also Associate professor at CNAM Paris, teaching innovation design, coaching and créative project management. Before, He spent 15 years in the AIR LIQUIDE group, as responsible of the development of new technologies (military Applications, Hydrogen Fuel Cell), across innovating team organization to address new markets. He also coordinates the international Fuel cell R&D Air Liquide group program. He is the author of the Book « Le manager Explorateur, le management de Projet par enjeux » – Polytechnique Montreal 2013.

Joan Pascual

Pascual & Ausio Architects
Founder

Joan Pascual graduated in Architecture from the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona in November 1973. Since 1976 he is professor of the Department of Projects of Technical School of Architecture of Barcelona. He has combined this activity , in some periods, with teaching at other schools like the School of Architecture at the Salle in Barcelona.

His professional activity covers residential building of public and private promotion, tertiary buildings or public facilities .He has received many awards like

FAD award 1990

“Barcelona city interior design” 1991

“Badalona city biennial award” 2000

“Barcelona city” 2003

“Prat de Llobregat city council II Bienal” 2004

Bonaplata award 2014.

In March 2016, Pascual i Ausió Arquitectes, together with Nikken Sekkei, have been selected as the winners of the tender for the design of the new Camp Nou Stadium of FC Barcelona. Nikken Sekkei is one of Asia’s leading architectural and engineering studios

Jaume Valls-Pasola

University of Barcelona (UB)
Professor of management and business administration at the University of Barcelona (UB)

Responsible of the UB Entrepreneurship Chair

Jaume Valls-Pasola was associate professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya until 1994 when he was appointed as professor by the University of Girona. During the period 1999-2001 he worked as UdG vice-president of economic affairs and planning. At that time he was the responsible for the launching of the University of Girona Science Park. In October 2006 he joined the UB where he is currently the director of the BIE (Barcelona Institut d’Emprenedoria ). BIE is the UB unit for the general coordination of entrepreneurship promotion activities. Valls-Pasola’s main research interest is the field of innovation management and entrepreneurship. Since 2007 Valls-Pasola is the responsible of the UB Entrepreneurship Chair. The chair organizes the Barcelona week of the Summer School “Management of Creativity in an Innovation Society” and also the XEU network -a joint action of the nine regional public universities in order to promote entrepreneurship.

Niels Billou

The Humanos Institute
Co-Founder and Executive Director

Dr. Niels Billou is a multiple award-winning international educator, having designed and delivered courses and workshops on innovation, design thinking, entrepreneurship, and international strategy to students in premier global business schools, such as London Business School, HEC, Indian School of Business, and Ivey Business School, among others. Niels is an expert on design thinking and innovation in variety of contexts, including large corporations as well as new ventures, in developed and developing markets, in both the private and social sectors. He was part of the founding faculty of the Hasso Plattner Institute’s School of Design Thinking, helping establish the School as one of the leading D-School’s in the world. He has won several grants to pursue his research interests and has conducted multi-country studies of innovative business models in both the established and emerging contexts. His work has been published in a range of books and journals and presented at numerous prominent international conferences.

Niels is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Humanos Institute, a not-for-profit dedicated to marrying the mind of business with the heart of humanity to help transform the lives people living in poor communities. Humanos brings multi-disciplinary teams from industry, academia, government, and not-for- profit sectors to co-create innovative, scalable and sustainable solutions using the human-centred Design Thinking methodology to the most pressing problems of our times.

Raul Bobet

Raul Bobet is a chemical engineer and Masters in Food Science from the University of California Davis (UCD). He also graduated in chemistry from the University Ramon Llull.

Bobet has a PhD in Oenology from the University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona, Spain). He is currently the technical director of Ferrer Bobet and the founder and president of Castell d’Encús. During his career he has worked as a winemaker, technical and production director, consultant and CEO of Bodegas Torres, as well as at the research department of the Robert Mondavi Winery in Napa Valley (California)

His areas of expertise and research are: Innovation and Regional Economic Development, focused on Economics of Technological Change, Educational Systems and Entrepreneurship

Government of Quebec Office for the Iberian Peninsula in Barcelona

Director

Alfons Calderón

Alfons Calderón is acting Director at the Government of Quebec Office for the Iberian Peninsula in Barcelona where he has been economic and business development officer since 1999. He is the former Project Manager for the American Division at the Catalonia Office of Foreign Investment. He had previously worked at the Barcelona Governance Project at ESADE sponsored by the United Nations University, and at the Commercial Office of the Spanish Embassy in Paris. He is a former trainee of the European Commission in Brussels.

In the academic field, Alfons Calderon has done research and has been teaching on management, trade and international business policy at different university centers, especially ESADE, in Barcelona. He is co-author of several books and has published articles and lectured on international relations, strategy and the European Union.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Science and an MBA from ESADE. He also has a degree in Business Administration and Management from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and a Master’s degree in International Management from the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS). He has followed post-graduate studies in International Economy at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).

Alfons Calderón has also a cooperation experience record with NGO’s in several developing countries.

Kevin Gilmore

Appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer with the Montreal Canadiens on April 7, 2011, Kevin Gilmore is responsible for several key areas of the business, including corporate partnerships, sales, and marketing, and oversees the development of major projects while working closely with team owner and President Geoff Molson.

From 2006 to 2009, he was Senior Vice President Corporate Development and Strategic Planning with the Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc. (AEG). As such, he looked after all new business development initiatives for AEG’s global operations. Between 1999 and 2006, he served as the Los Angeles Kings’ Vice President of Hockey Operations while fulfilling duties as Governor and General Manager of the Manchester Monarchs – the Kings’ AHL affiliate team.

In 1998, he founded Professional Sports Advisors Group and presided and operated the sports consulting firm with clients involved in three of the four major professional sports leagues in North America (NHL, MLB and NFL). Prior to that Gilmore was Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Anaheim Sports, Inc., owners of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Anaheim Angels baseball club (1993-1998). From 1991-1993 he was legal counsel with The Walt Disney Company (Disney), responsible for the negotiation and oversight of global sponsorship agreements with partners such as The Coca-Cola Company, American Express, Nestlé and Federal Express. He was also charged with leading the negotiations when Disney decided to expand its reach into professional sports and was the point person for the company in discussions with the NHL on acquiring an expansion team and the City of Anaheim in connection with the use of the newly built city-funded arena.

Before joining Disney in 1991, Kevin Gilmore was an associate with Latham & Watkins, a major law firm in Los Angeles, CA. He began his career with Martineau Walker, attorneys, in Montreal. He earned his Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) from the University of Ottawa in 1987 and a License in Civil Laws in 1986. He also received a Certificate of Completion, Finance for Executives from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, in 2007.
On April 21, 2013, Kevin Gilmore was elected to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Olympic Committee.

Réjean Landry

Lallemand Inc
Senior Vice President

Réjean Landry has accumulated 30 years of experience for Lallemand, an international manufacturer of yeast and bacteria, employing today over 3,000 persons, which expanded its activities during this period to 40 countries on all continents. He acted for nearly 25 years as the VP Finance and Administration of Lallemand. His responsibilities included accounting, control, information technology, finance, taxation, administration, as well as strategy and business development. He participated in over 60 acquisitions and joint ventures all over the world. Today he continues to act part time as Senior VP and Special Advisor. Before joining Lallemand, he was the Financial Director of a cooperative in food retailing, and prior to that he served in the Canadian Armed Forces as a financial services officer, including a period of service with the United Nations and at the Collège Militaire Royal de St-Jean in various training and teaching roles.

Before becoming a chartered CPA (CGA), Réjean Landry earned his MBA at University of Western Ontario and his BBA in administration at Collège Militaire de St-Jean, Université de Sherbrooke. He is now adjunct professor at HEC Montréal in the department of International Business.

Besides his involvement in business and education, he is an active contributor to community services. He has spent several years on the Board of Directors and acted as Treasurer of Financial Executives International (FEI Canada) for the Quebec chapter. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of l’Hirondelle, which provides integration services to immigrants. Furthermore, he is a mentor to entrepreneurs at the Canadian Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs and the Center for Business Assistance of Upper Montérégie.

Jaume Biarnés

Jaume Biarnés is the head chef for the research kitchen in ALICIA Foundation (Food and Science) research center in the kitchen and promote good eating habits in Sant Benet de Bages. He graduated in kitchen in Barcelona. He has worked in different places, accommodation, catering and pastry. He has been part of the restaurant El Bulli to participate actively in all spheres of action of this (restaurant, El Bulli workshop, catering, consulting and writing books). As the founding member of Alice, has coordinated the preparation of studies and publications on culinary techniques, history of food and agri-food promotion of heritage in Catalonia

Josep Perelló

Josep Perelló is Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Barcelona. He leads the OpenSystems group, which focuses on citizen participation and artistic practices as an alternative ways of doing science. His scientific research focuses on Complex Systems in fields such as financial markets, human mobility, social dilemmas and decision-making. He leads and coordinates the Citizen Science Office of BarcelonaLab since its creation in 2012.

Pep Torres

Born in 1965, Pep Torres has a renaissance-style vision and works as an inventor, consultant, speaker, designer, writer and also collaborates on TV and radio programs.

Since 2005, he has been running the invention and creativity studio Stereonoise S.L.; a company dedicated to the development of new products, creative consultancy and generating media attention for its clients. His inventions and proposals have received worldwide recognition on numerous occasions and have appeared on the front page of such prestigious newspapers as the Wall Street Journal or TIME Magazine

In 2006, he was awarded the Barcelona Premi Ciutat in the multimedia section for the exhibition “Futour, un tour por el futuro”. In2009, one of his inventions appeared on TIME magazine’s list of the fifty bestinventions in the world.

For three years, Pep Torres has created and managed the AATIC International Ideas and Inventions Fair held annually in the coastal town of Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona). He is also on the international judging panel of such prestigious innovation fairs as Inpex in Pittsburgh, Inova in Zagreb, Euro Invent in Romania and the British Invention Show in London.

Pep’s career has inevitably led him to open the miba, The Museum of ideas and inventions of Barcelona. This is the first permanent museum dedicated to inventions that supports and channels creativity and invention through inspiration, training, communication, and by building relationships with leaders in innovation at all levels.